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GDC: Ngmoco hopes to rule with new mobile games (Macworld.com)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:17:00 +0000

Macworld.com – Whatâ€™s better than being king? Being a god.

SAIC receives Navy contract worth up to $625M (AP)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:02:10 +0000

AP – Defense contractor Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC Inc., on Wednesday said it received a contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and enhance command and control software.

Google CEO: mobile computing reshaping Internet (AP)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:55:30 +0000

AP – Google’s CEO says mobile smartphones are transforming the Internet, and defended his company’s growing dominance over information on the Web.

Review: `Final Fantasy XIII’ falls flat (AP)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:08:01 +0000

AP – During the 1990s, the Square brand was synonymous with the role-playing video game.

TeamViewer brings its remote control offering to the App Store (Macworld.com)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:35:00 +0000

Macworld.com – TeamViewer already offers a remote control and desktop sharing program for desktops.

Need an Extra Terabyte for Your TiVo? New App Lets You Link to an HP MediaSmart Server (PC World)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:06:00 +0000

PC World – If youâ€™re a TiVo aficionado, you know that thereâ€™s no such thing as too much storage. And now you can let your TV show and movie collection spill out of the box, across your home network and into an HP MediaSmart server.

Google opens business app store

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:03:21 +0000

Google has today launched an online marketplace for business applications, called the Apps Marketplace, which is in similar vein to Apple’s AppStore and Salesforce.com’s AppExchange. All of the tools available in the marketplace integrate with Google’s online desktop productivity suite and are themselves web-based.

HP’s difficult week continues with strikes and a lawsuit

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:57:29 +0000

Hewlett-Packard, the planet’s largest computer company, has been hit with a double whammy of ongoing industrial action and a potential product recall in China. On Tuesday, approximately 200 employees at HP locations in the north-east and north-west of England went ahead with a second day of strikes in a bid to improve job security and pay

China Mobile investing $5.8B in Chinese bank (AP)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:50:34 +0000

AP – China Mobile Ltd., the world’s biggest phone company by subscribers, said Wednesday it was investing $5.8 billion in a Chinese bank as part of a plan to develop mobile phone banking and business services.

IBM, universities target easy-to-use cellphones (Reuters)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:31:09 +0000

Reuters – IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate.

‘JihadJane’ recruited in US, Europe, Asia: prosecutors (AFP)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:52:26 +0000

AFP – A US woman operating online under the name “JihadJane” recruited jihadist fighters in the United States, Europe and Asia in a bid to carry out terror plots “or die trying,” prosecutors said.

Google opens virtual shop for business software (AFP)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:09:38 +0000

AFP – Google opened an online shop for business software hosted as services in the Internet “cloud.”

Street Fighter IV arrives in the App Store (Macworld.com)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:06:00 +0000

Macworld.com – Students of the hadouken have a new venue to test their fighting mettle: Street Fighter IV launched Wednesday for the iPhone and iPod touch. This seminal arcade fighter brings high-end graphics, complex combos, and a memorable cast of characters to the mobile platform.

Arm Sees Over 50 New IPad-like Devices out This Year (PC World)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:30:13 +0000

PC World – The launch of Apple’s iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year, an Arm executive said Wednesday, predicting over 50 tablet PC devices will be launched globally.

Chinese group files complaint over "faulty" HP laptops (Reuters)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:59:44 +0000

Reuters – More than 100 Chinese consumers have filed an official complaint against Hewlett-Packard Co over faulty laptop computers, leaving the door open for a lawsuit against the U.S.

"Logorama" duo take aim at "Ghost Recon" videogame (Reuters)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:52:51 +0000

Reuters – The directors behind the Oscar-winning animated short “Logorama,” are moving into the live-action world — but they aren’t going Hollywood just yet.

Google adds bike lane with latest mapping feature (AP)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:07:11 +0000

AP – Google Inc.

Summary Box: Google expands sales of business apps (AP)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:16:42 +0000

AP – NEW APPS STORE: Google is selling the online services of other business software makers.

Google opens Web store for business applications (AP)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:58:00 +0000

AP – Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet.

MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up (AP)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:33:15 +0000

AP – Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users’ posts to those sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly.

MySpace readies site overhaul to rekindle growth (Reuters)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:26:39 +0000

Reuters – With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year.

Man stabbed with meat thermometer at movie in CA (AP)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:18:05 +0000

AP – Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film “Shutter Island” at a Southern California movie theater.

LG Elec launches Android-based smartphone (Reuters)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:02:56 +0000

Reuters – LG Electronics Inc, the world’s No. 3 mobile phone maker, on Wednesday launched a smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system in South Korea, as it seeks to boost its relatively weak smartphone line-ups.

New routers let companies exploit 3G cellular data networks

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:20:40 +0000

Machine to machine (M2M) communications via 3G cellular data links is expanding in the enterprise. Sixnet offers a battery of new products to make it simple and cost-effective to network kiosks, remote offices, point-of-sale equipment and digital signage.

NASA space shuttle gearing up for big phase out

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:20:39 +0000

NASA is working to finish out the space shuttle program with some key missions. First, the next space shuttle, Discovery, currently is sitting on Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.